39. for He remembered that they were but flesh,like a wind that passes away and does not return.
40. How often they provoked Him in the wildernessand grieved Him in the desert!
41. Yes, they tested God over and over,and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
42. They did not remember His power,nor the day when He delivered them from the enemy,
43. how He had performed His signs in Egyptand His wonders in the fields of Zoan:
44. and He turned their rivers into blood,so that they could not drink from their streams.
45. He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them,and frogs, which destroyed them.
46. He gave also their crops to the grasshopperand the fruit of their labor to the locust.
47. He destroyed their vines with hailand their sycamore trees with frost.
48. He gave up their cattle also to the hailand their flocks to thunderbolts.
49. He cast upon them the fierceness of His anger,wrath, indignation, and trouble,by sending angels bringing disaster.
50. He made a path for His anger;He did not spare them from death,but gave their lives over to the plague,
51. And struck down all the firstborn in Egypt,the first fruits of their strength in the tents of Ham.
52. Then He led out His own people like sheepand guided them in the wilderness like a flock;
53. He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid,but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.